Information
We invite submissions for Bialogue 2025, the 29th edition of the SemDial workshop series at Bielefeld University, Germany. This conference brings together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue across diverse disciplines, including formal semantics, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience.
Topics
This year, the conference will center around the theme “Meaningful Interaction”. We particularly encourage work that explores this theme, but submissions are welcome from all areas presenting formal, computational, and empirical approaches to the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue, including but not limited to:
- Dynamics of agents’ information states in dialogue
- Common ground and mutual belief
- Goals, intentions, and commitments in communication
- Turn-taking and interaction control
- Semantic and pragmatic interpretation in dialogue
- Dialogue and discourse structure
- Categorization of dialogue phenomena in corpora
- Child-adult interaction and language learning through dialogue
- Gesture, gaze, and intonational meaning in communication
- Multimodal dialogue
- Interpretation and reasoning in spoken dialogue systems
- Dialogue management, design, and evaluation
- Modeling miscommunication, disfluency, and repair
- Interdisciplinary perspectives, including enactive and ecological approaches to dialogue
- Applications of innovative theoretical models to dialogue research
Submission Details
Submissions should meet the following requirements:
- Papers should be original, unpublished, and not under review elsewhere.
- Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this information, using a footnote on the title page of the submissions.
- Papers should follow the ACL 2025 formatting guidelines and use the ACL submission templates.
- Submissions should be anonymized PDF-files.
- Submission will open March 1, 2025.
Long papers: At most 8 pages of content (up to 2 additional pages are allowed for references).
Short papers/Posters: At most 2 pages of content (up to 1 additional page allowed for references). Submission to this track can be non-archival on request.
Important Dates
All deadlines are 23:59 UTC -12h (“Anywhere on Earth”)
| Submission opens | March 1, 2025 |
| Long Paper Deadline | May 16, 2025 |
| Reviews due | June 6, 2025 |
| Notification (long) | June 13, 2025 |
| Camera Ready (long) | July 4, 2025 |
| Short Paper/Poster Deadline | July 18, 2025 |
| Notification (short) | July 25, 2025 |
| Camera Ready (short/posters) | August 9, 2025 |
| Registration Deadline | August 15, 2025 |
| Bialogue 2025 | September 3–5, 2025 |